A grocery industry group says a program that allows welfare recipients to shop at Iowa farmers markets with food stamps has cost taxpayers nearly $1 million over three years for less than $60,000 worth of fresh food.
State officials acknowledge the numbers, but they say the cost also reflects indirect efforts to promote the entire food stamp program used by more than 255,000 people statewide.
The issue about the farmers market costs arose from a disagreement over the state's effort to end a separate 7-cent subsidy grocers receive each time an electronic food stamp card is used.
Iowa Department of Human Services officials have said the grocer subsidy, worth about $1 million per year, could be better spent.
Right.
The Iowa Department of Human Services clearly wants to take that million dollars is pays to grocery stores for processing food stamps on their behalf and instead burn even more money "marketing" farmer's markets to people on food stamps.
What a waste.
State government in Iowa needs to be weeded.
No, it needs to be destroyed.
Get the Roundup and start spraying.
Start with DHS.
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